Very High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steels with Different Surface Morphologies
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Review report on the topic ‘Very high cycle fatigue behavior of austenitic stainless steels 2 with different surface morphologies’. The comments to improve the quality of the manuscript are listed below:
- Shorten the length of the abstract section. Please omit the unnecessary information and add the key conclusion of the work at the end of the abstract section.
- Please add a separate section to discuss the novelty of the work.
- Remove the Fig. 1 from the introduction section.
- The introduction section is presented roughly. Add more references and try to make a bridge between current and previously published work.
- How was the material properties of the base plate analyzied?
- Add the image pf the specimen and standard used and also add the image of the fractured specimen for each conditions.
- Surface morphology is presented well but technical discussion is very poor.
- Fatigue fracture surface need a depth discussion. Refer to previous published work. Also if possobel add the EDS spectra of the fracture surface: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2017.06.044; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2018.09.036.
- Shorten the length of the conclusion section.
Author Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
we are grateful for your thorough review of our manuscript. For responses please look in PDF file.
Best regards
M. Smaga
Author Response File: 
Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
See attached file
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
we are grateful for your thorough review of our manuscript. For responses please look in PDF file.
Best regards
M. Smaga
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 3 Report
Dear authors
It is high quality manuscript which deals with VHCF of the two austenitic stainless steels AISI 904L and AISI 347 with 7 different surface morphologies.
Extensive research work was carried out and various complementary methods were used to describe initial state of materials, surface microstructure, roughness, residual stresses, surface fracture analysis, etc.
The results are presented clear. The most appropriate surface morphology was from point of view of VHCF determined.
No relevant recommendations for improvement.
Author Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
we are grateful for your thorough review of our manuscript and positive recommendation!
Best regards,
M. Smaga
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Accepted.
